"You Must Be Compelling Me To Say It Straight, Which Is Fine. I Don't Want To Use Words Like 'you're

"You must be compelling me to say it straight, which is fine. I don't want to use words like 'you're better-looking than them' to sweet-talk you, as I think that putting you on par with those people is a disrespect to you.

You are set up high within my heart, and no one can reach you." Yan Xiaohan took a sip of tea, tone undisturbed. "These words are from the heart. There's no jest in them."

📌 official golden stage art for episode 11 of the audio drama produced by 劈个叉Staff. artist: 空心烧烤城 (weibo)

✨ this quote is from book Golden Stage/Golden Terraço by Cang Wu Bin Bai

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I am keeping a tally of how many times the Crown Prince has saved Yukiya from this arc so far: Nazukihiko did it four times already.

Disguised as Sumimaru, he shoved the stark raving mad crow that tried to ram against Yukiya and the old man rendering the crow unconscious (Episode 14)

The first monster monkey attacking them in Suguo. Yukiya was too slow to react that Wakamiya carried him and proceeded to decapitate the huge monkey (Episode 15)

Yukiya thought he found a survivor in one of the houses only to realise too late that it was a shapeshifting monkey. Wakamiya tried to talk to it wondering if it understood the Yatagarasu language. When it tried to devour Yukiya he swung his sword hitting it in the forehead bullseye. (Episode 15)

And on Episode 17, just before Yukiya wondered if it was the end of him, the two young monkeys biting him and three more others coming, the Prince, like a knight in shining armour, has come to save him. Again.

Keep in mind that Yukiya didn’t let the whole thing without a fight. For a 15-year-old boy, he was able to give strong punches. Though without training, it was not easy.

This series will be the end of me. I want to know what will happen next week when narrator Matoyo Yamane tells us “The Prince's words cause ripples in Yukiya's heart.” What could that be? Aaahh!!

Just finished the first volume of Golden Terrace and I found a new ship dynamic that I love: not realizing they're crushing on the other until they betray them. Fu Shen and Yan Xiaohan are teens and just starting to get to know each other when Yan Xiaohan uses Fu Shen to get ahead in his job. The book starts with them in their twenties with an enemies-to-lovers vibe, but throught flashbacks and actions you come to find they've never really hated each other.

Miyano to Niibashi: You ever notice that Hirano-senpai’s roommate is like an overgrown puppy?

Kagiura waving wildly at Hirano from the basketball court: Hirano-San!! Hi!!!!

Niibashi: Oh yeah. What about Sasaki?

Sasaki shoving his way through the crowd, beaming towards them: Miya-Chan!!!!!! I brought drinks!

Miyano: Sasaki-Senpai is more like a kitten. Cute and cuddly and likes to bite.

Niibashi and Hirano: What?

Miyano: Hm?

Fu Shen: "Gege?"

"It’s okay." Yan Xiaohan lowered his head to watch him, sighing silently in his heart with a slight bow on his lips. "Call me that again and I can just give up the darkness and turn to the light for you".

✨ this quote is from book Golden Stage by Cang Wu Bin Bai

📌 official illustration for the Golden Stage audio drama